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Because we’re young (you can refer to yourself as “young” until you’re 30, right?), we only really remember Clint Eastwood for a couple things – Gran Torino and the time he talked to that chair at the 2012 Republican National Convention. But despite the fact that everyone now thinks of him as some off-the-rocker conservative who’s too old for his own good, you must know that he’s just an off-the-rocker conservative who’s alive years past when his beliefs were widely held as opposed to, well… not. He’ll forever be the cowboy of all cowboys and someone that would make the Marlboro Man think, “Damn, I shouldn’t fuck with that dude.”
And his recent interview with Esquire is no different, especially when it comes to scrutinizing how everyone born in the last thirty years is just a whiny piece of shit who doesn’t deserve to eat the same red meat he does.
Esquire: Your characters have become touchstones in the culture, whether it’s Reagan invoking “Make my day” or now Trump … I swear he’s even practiced your scowl.
Clint Eastwood: Maybe. But he’s onto something, because secretly everybody’s getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That’s the kiss-ass generation we’re in right now. We’re really in a pussy generation. Everybody’s walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist. And then when I did Gran Torino, even my associate said, “This is a really good script, but it’s politically incorrect.” And I said, “Good. Let me read it tonight.” The next morning, I came in and I threw it on his desk and I said, “We’re starting this immediately.”
Esquire: What is the “pussy generation”?
Clint Eastwood: All these people that say, “Oh, you can’t do that, and you can’t do this, and you can’t say that.” I guess it’s just the times.
Those are the words of someone who definitely listens to Kid Rock and can drink a fifth of Jim Beam and still stand up. The only difference, though? Kid Rock endorsed Trump, and Eastwood refuses to endorse anyone (yet). .
[via Esquire]
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lol pussy generation? We’re not the generation who got all ass hurt when someone drank from a water fountain.
Now we take pictures of our food.
Not sure if this is a racism reference or flouridation reference.
We must stop the communist conspiracy to ruin the purity of or precious bodily fluids. Now make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater.
Stick with movies Clint.
“When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist,” says man born in 1930.
A lot less burning crosses today then when he was growing up. Weird.
yet we still have global warming
This reminds me of Dick Lewiston from The Goods; “I remember a time when men were men, and women were women, and coloreds were coloreds..”
“Well what’s the word for it, Lana? You freaked out when I said quadroon!”
Why don’t non-millenials get that whining about millenials is in itself whining?
Not sure it applies to millennials since we’re not the ones in charge of the political class.
I was at the RNC in Tampa that year and at the time, that bit was pretty funny
Leave us alone.
If you’re no longer a teenage boy and you’re still calling people pussies, you’ve got problems. And I can’t help you with them.
Yea Clint, for your generation “normal” was everyone being racist, homophobic, discriminating, assholes. That’s something I’m glad to not be a part of.
Nice work, yep…”It used to be normal.” Well, so did a lot of things!
Sup? two kids at home want to make it 3?
awww they deleted the bot’s post now this doesnt make it sense